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Today is Eid Ul Adha, the Islamic festival commemorating the prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to Allah. Muslims are supposed to mark this by arranging for lambs to be slaughtered an act known as Qurbani and donating meat to the poor.

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seekers who would not otherwise be able to celebrate Eid. It is, at once, an act of devotion and social justice. The SIF is a not for profit organisation seeking to demonstrate the good that Muslims can bring to Scotland. Inside the butcher's, people shout orders over the whine of the band saw. This scene feels ancient and elemental. Seven men are working in a small meat smelling space. One wears a chain mail glove to protect his hand from the knife. Carcasses, headless and hoofless, are carried in from a van, cut off the bone into fat free bite size pieces, then bagged and boxed. These lambs were killed yesterday, in Paisley, by Shaukat Ali Faisal, a 65 year old who slaughtered 1,015 in a single day. With the knife poised on each animal's throat, he said the name of the person who had arranged the Qurbani and a blessing in the name of Allah. The butchers take extra care when preparing this me.

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